1981 Daytona 500

Daytona International Speedway · 1981 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Richard Petty	8	42	27	5	9	26	200	500

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	8	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Buick	200	26	running	180
2	1	28	Bobby Allison	Ranier Racing	Pontiac	200	117	running	180
3	5	88	Ricky Rudd	DiGard Motorsports	Oldsmobile	200	9	running	170
4	6	1	Buddy Baker	Ellington Racing	Oldsmobile	200	10	running	165
5	7	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Pontiac	200	4	running	160
6	16	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Ford	199	4	running	155
7	27	90	Jody Ridley	Donlavey Racing	Ford	198		running	146
8	29	27	Cale Yarborough	M.C. Anderson Racing	Oldsmobile	197		running	142
9	34	75	Joe Millikan	RahMoc Enterprises	Buick	197		running	138
10	35	98	Johnny Rutherford	Benfield Racing	Pontiac	195		running	134
11	21	57	Bill Elswick	RahMoc Enterprises	Oldsmobile	195		running	0
12	33	12	Donnie Allison	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Oldsmobile	195		running	127
13	22	22	Stan Barrett	Mach 1 Racing	Pontiac	195		running	124
14	13	93	Don Whittington	Scott Smith Racing	Oldsmobile	194		running	121
15	15	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Oldsmobile	194		running	118
16	38	41	Dick Brooks	Matthews Racing	Buick	193	1	running	0
17	28	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	192		running	112
18	17	19	Ronnie Sanders	Gray Racing	Buick	191		running	109
19	23	17	Glenn Jarrett	Hamby Racing	Buick	186		running	106
20	39	37	Don Sprouse	Rogers Racing	Oldsmobile	181		running	103
21	26	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Pontiac	179		running	100
22	14	23	Geoff Bodine	Bahre Racing	Pontiac	178		running	97
23	31	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Buick	175		running	94
24	41	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Pontiac	169		running	91
25	37	86	Elliott Forbes-Robinson	Howard & Egerton Racing	Buick	167		rear axle	88
26	20	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	159		running	85
27	32	68	Lennie Pond	Testa Racing	Buick	155		oil pump	82
28	19	25	Ronnie Thomas	Ronnie Thomas Racing	Pontiac	151		clutch	79
29	9	16	David Pearson	Halpern Enterprises	Chevrolet	144	3	engine	81
30	40	99	Tim Richmond	Ulrich Racing	Buick	144		transmission	73
31	4	15	Benny Parsons	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	135		overheating	70
32	11	42	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Buick	128		engine	67
33	3	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	123	26	clutch	69
34	25	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Pontiac	123		piston	61
35	10	51	A.J. Foyt	A.J. Foyt Racing	Oldsmobile	120		valve spring	58
36	2	11	Darrell Waltrip	Junior Johnson & Associates	Buick	117		engine	55
37	42	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Buick	116		running	52
38	18	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Pontiac	110		broken valve	49
39	24	7	Bruce Hill	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Buick	54		accident	46
40	12	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Buick	47		running	43
41	36	31	Billie Harvey	Billie Harvey (Owner)	Pontiac	45		engine	40
42	30	39	Blackie Wangerin	Wangerin Racing	Ford	17		accident	37

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Bobby Allison	117	58.5%	P2
2	Richard Petty	26	13.0%	P1
3	Neil Bonnett	26	13.0%	P33
4	Buddy Baker	10	5.0%	P4
5	Ricky Rudd	9	4.5%	P3
6	Dale Earnhardt	4	2.0%	P5
7	Bill Elliott	4	2.0%	P6
8	David Pearson	3	1.5%	P29
9	Dick Brooks	1	0.5%	P16

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